If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.